✅ Prosper means to be successful or fortunate, especially (though not exclusively) in a financial sense (I’m glad to hear you and your family are prospering).
✅ Blossom means to flourish or develop, especially in a way that suggests flowering or coming into your own (He blossomed in his new workplace).
✅ Prosper and blossom both mean to do well (You’ll blossom once you find your true friends; I’ve prospered this year).
✅ Prosper implies being successful or fortunate in a material sense, whether in regard to your finances, your health, or similar. Blossom can be used to refer to flourishing in a material sense but can also suggest flourishing with regard to your self-esteem or your sense of yourself.
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✅ Fatherly describes something that is like or befitting a parental figure (They often spoke in a fatherly tone).
✅ Paternal describes something characteristic of a kind or protective person (a paternal pat on the shoulder).
✅ Fatherly and paternal have very similar meanings. Generally, both words are used in a positive way to suggest care, love, and protection.
✅ However, being the more formal of the two, paternal can sometimes be used to suggest condescension (The bank manager offered unsolicited paternal advice) or more simply to express a relationship (He was my paternal grandfather).
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✅ Someone who is in the public eye is subject to public attention, especially attention by the media (The politician has been in the public eye for years).
✅ Being in the limelight means being in the center of public attention and interest, especially by having fame or notoriety (The actor is a private person, uncomfortable with the limelight).
✅ Someone who is in the limelight is often implied to be there more so by choice, or to enjoy being in the limelight (They soaked up their time in the limelight).
✅ Someone who is in the public eye is generally in that position due to being associated with something newsworthy (After winning the race, she was in the public eye).
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